Sandia Labs FY22 Laboratory Directed Research & Development Annual Report

Defense Programs Award of Excellence TECH TRANSFER AWARD.

Presented annually by NNSA’s deputy administrator for Defense Programs, the award recognizes exceptional and significant achievements in quality, productivity, cost savings, safety, and creativity in support of NNSA’s Stockpile Stewardship Program.

ADVANCED TECHNIQUE FOR CHIP-LEVEL AUTHENTICATION AND EVALUATION. In 2022, a Defense Programs Tech Transfer Award was awarded to the Sandia team behind the advanced technique for chip-level authentication and evaluation. To ensure mission success, NNSA requires all nuclear deterrence electrical components be authenticated. Using the LDRD-developed Power Spectrum Analysis with an unconventional biasing scheme to the significant cost factors, Sandia submitted the technology to the NNSA NA10.1-sponsored FedTech program for commercialization. After signing a research license with Sandia through the program, Chiplytics was founded in 2021 with the goal of providing a user-friendly, cost-effective Power Spectrum Analysis testing procedure to the commercial electronics market. The company has the potential to save the electronics industry tens of millions of dollars and ensure the authenticity of microelectronics used within nuclear deterrence and national security programs. power microelectronic devices, researchers from Sandia developed a nonintrusive, nondestructive technique to authenticate various microelectronic devices. Understanding the potential benefit of the analysis to the electronics market, but realizing

From left, Paiboon Tangyonyong, Edward I. Cole, Jr., and David V. Wick. Not pictured, Stephen DiBartolomeo, Steven Dourmashkin, Guillermo Loubriel, Matthew Skeels, and Brandon Smith

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